Wheel-harrow



(No Model.)

M. CHANDLER.

WHEEL HARROW.

No. 313,654. Patented Mar. 10, 1885.

UNITED States Patent triers.

MOSES CHANDLER, OF EAST CORINTH, MAINE.

WHEEL-MARROW.

SPEGIFICATION fdl'llllng part of Letters Patent No. 313,65, dated M'arch10, 18185.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Mosns CHANDLER, of East Corinth, in the county ofPenobscot and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Wheel-Harrows, of which the following is a specification.

Heretofore wheel-barrows have been constructed for field-work mostly. Inchanging from field-work to row-cultivating it has been with difficultyand loss of time. Another trouble has been with whecl-harrows, thewearing of axle and boxes, also the clogging in wet weather of thedisks.

My invention relates mostly to those points, of which I shallhereinafter give a full description, in connection with accompanyingdrawings, of which Figure l is a plan View of my wheel-harrow. Fig. 2 isan enlarged detail View of spliced cap 0 0.- Figs. 3, 4, and 5 areenlarged sectional views showing how the sections are made ready to beput together and for the purpose of explaining my improvements in theWearing parts. Fig. 6 shows the pole-splice.

In returning to Fig. lit will be seen that the frame-work is constructedwith a pole,A, slotted crossbar B, spliced caps O 0, stayrods F F, metalstay-plates H, combined with seat-holderR, spliced-pole socket P, andstay rods F F, seat D, plow-handles E.

In describing the working of this imple ment the improvement will bereadily seen.

-The harrow is constructed in four separate gangs or sections, like theone shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5, they being attached to the spliced cap 00, (shown by bolt N,) which passes through the holes in cap 0 G. Thebolt in the inner end of spliced cap 0 C passes through the slot incross-bar B, for the purpose of securing the inner end of the maindouble gang or section. The bolt N in the outer section passes throughthe outer end of spliced cap 0 G, and through stay-rods F F to securethe outer end of the gang. The operation as a Wheel'harrow is to set thedisks at any angle desired by changing the hooks in the stay-rodsF Fback or forwardin the metal stay-plate H.

When it is desired to change from a whcel- .harrow to a straddle-rowcultivator, it is only necessary to unhook stay-rods F F from metalstay-plate H and pull the spliced cap 0 C apart, detaching the outersection of. spliced cap 0 O attached to the main cross-bar B, which maybe shifted to any position for cultivating rows by means of the slot incrossbar 13. The disks G may be set to throw the dirt to or fromvegetation.

The seat D, which is attached to riser or standard R, cast upon metalstay-plate H, may be removed or remain on while in use as a straddle-rowcultivator, the implement being guided by plow-handles E E.

Fig. 6 shows the pole-splice, which is slotted at the rear end, themanner of attaching the polesplice to the pole A by passing the slottedend of splice into socket P cast on metal stay-plate H, and by slidingbolt S, (shown in pole-splice, Fig. 6,) into slot in pole A, holding itrigidly by not.

drawings, Fig. 1, farther apart than they should be at field-work,showing the construction of the cap 0 0. They may be easily set anydistance apart by sliding bolt N in the slotted cross-bar B out or in.

In again returning to Figs. 3, 4, and 5, the double tapering hubs oraXlesI are constructed in this manner for the purpose of casting theminto a cylinder-mold, thereby chilling them and. making them smooth. Thehub or axles I serve to hold the disks G the right distance apart. Thehubs I are cast hollow, corresponding with holes in disks G, allfastened rigidly together by stay-bolt O. The double standard J andboxes K are cast whole, and are constructed in cone shape, correspondingwith the concaved sides of disk G, thereby forming a series of clearersfor the disks G. By thus shaping the standards they may all set frontingthe same way, while the disks may be attached to them with the concavesides facing to theright or left, clearers being equalof right and leftstandards.

It will be seen that cap P in Fig. 5 is signed to fit box K and standardJ.

Thus, having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a wheel or disk harrow, the combination, with pole A and slottedcross-bar B, of

cap 0 O, leaving the inner section of spliced M It will be seen that thegangs are set in ly efficient either way, thus saving the trouble IOOthe spliced separable caps 00, perforated stay- 3. The double standardJ, east integral with plate H, and rods F, all constructed and boxes K,and having convexed edges adapted adapted to operate substantially asdescribed. to operate as scrapers for the disks in turn- 2. Incombination with pole A, slotted erossing the soil either to the rightor left, in com- 5 bar B, rods F, and plate H, the spliced sepbinationwith the tapering double hub I, for [5 arable caps O 0, each carryingtwo separate thepurpose fully described and set forth.

gangs of disl s,"one of which may be removed MOSESCHANDLER. with thedetached portion of the cap to con- Witnesses: vert the harrow into astraddle-row.cnltivatg r, CHARLES E. EDMUNDS,

IO substantially as described. OHAs. WILLIAMS. Y

